Blue Origin Protests SpaceX's Big NASA Award
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) against NASA's decision to award a nearly $3 billion contract to rival SpaceX, arguing NASA "moved the goalposts" and made a "high risk" decision with the award.
NASA earlier this week awarded SpaceX $2.9 billion to develop the human landing system for the space agency's Artemis program, its plan to return to the moon in the coming years. SpaceX beat out competing designs from Leidos Holdings (NYSE: LDOS) subsidiary Dynetics and Blue Origin.
A rendering of the SpaceX StarShip on the moon. Image source: SpaceX.
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